Medical experts in Ho Chi Minh Cityhave called on infertile husbands to undergo medical check-ups fortreatment, as up to 90 percent of male infertility cases can now becured.
Dr. Nguyen Thanh Nhu, an andrology expert,said 40-50 percent of infertility cases in Vietnam are men and morethan 90 percent of them suffer from a low sperm count or poor qualitysperm.
However, he said, men are always hesitant to go for a medicalexamination and some of them even blame the sterility on their wives,prolonging the infertility .
Doctor Nhu said that it takes only one to two days to detectinfertility and that treatment costs are not high and the surgery isminimal and only takes a short period of time.
Dr Ho Manh Tuong from the HCM City Reproductive Endocrinology andInfertility Association (HOSREM) said that medicines and surgery arethe most common methods of male infertility treatment.
Males with poor sperm quality will be prescribed with various kinds ofmedicines including Androgens, Antiestrogen, hCG, GnRH agonist, FSH andGH.
However, the success rate of cases involving surgery depends on the females age and reproductive capability, said Tuong.
If the surgery fails, patients can turn to intrauterine insemination,in vitro fertilisation or an intracytoplasmic sperm injection.
Doctors say a couple who have been having regular sex for a yearwithout using contraception but have still not conceived is usually acase of infertility. For a couple, the chance of women becomingpregnant after sexual intercourse reaches about 20 percent after amonth, 75 percent after six months and 90 percent after one year.
Around 10-15 percent of newly-weds are infertile with males making up30 percent of infertility cases and females failing to conceive, 40percent. The remaining 20 percent are a combination of fertilityproblems from both the male and female.
The Ho Chi Minh City-based Tu Du Obstetric Hospital’s InfertilityDepartment provides treatment to between 10,000-15,000 couples eachyear and statistics indicate that more than 50 percent of the males areinfertile./.
Dr. Nguyen Thanh Nhu, an andrology expert,said 40-50 percent of infertility cases in Vietnam are men and morethan 90 percent of them suffer from a low sperm count or poor qualitysperm.
However, he said, men are always hesitant to go for a medicalexamination and some of them even blame the sterility on their wives,prolonging the infertility .
Doctor Nhu said that it takes only one to two days to detectinfertility and that treatment costs are not high and the surgery isminimal and only takes a short period of time.
Dr Ho Manh Tuong from the HCM City Reproductive Endocrinology andInfertility Association (HOSREM) said that medicines and surgery arethe most common methods of male infertility treatment.
Males with poor sperm quality will be prescribed with various kinds ofmedicines including Androgens, Antiestrogen, hCG, GnRH agonist, FSH andGH.
However, the success rate of cases involving surgery depends on the females age and reproductive capability, said Tuong.
If the surgery fails, patients can turn to intrauterine insemination,in vitro fertilisation or an intracytoplasmic sperm injection.
Doctors say a couple who have been having regular sex for a yearwithout using contraception but have still not conceived is usually acase of infertility. For a couple, the chance of women becomingpregnant after sexual intercourse reaches about 20 percent after amonth, 75 percent after six months and 90 percent after one year.
Around 10-15 percent of newly-weds are infertile with males making up30 percent of infertility cases and females failing to conceive, 40percent. The remaining 20 percent are a combination of fertilityproblems from both the male and female.
The Ho Chi Minh City-based Tu Du Obstetric Hospital’s InfertilityDepartment provides treatment to between 10,000-15,000 couples eachyear and statistics indicate that more than 50 percent of the males areinfertile./.
